Albert McCown Brown (1854 - 1911)

Born 20 Sep 1854 in Mill Creek, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ancestors

Husband of Dora L. Mitchell — married 24 Apr 1884 in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Died 5 Nov 1911 at age 57 in Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Biography

ALBERT M. BROWN, president of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Tyrone and largely interested in the lumber business, was born in his father's house along Brush Mountain, between Altoona and Hollidaysburg, Pa., September 20, 1854, and is a son of William H. and Rebecca (Yon) Brown.

William H. Brown was born in Blair County, Pa., in 1828, and died in November, 1904, aged seventy-six years. For many years he was engaged in the lumber business and always resided in his native county. His parents were Samuel and Mary (Hay) Brown. The widow of William H. Brown still survives. She was born October 25, 1828. Six children were born to them, namely: Samuel S., who lives at Milroy, Mifflin County; Crawford I., who is deceased; Mary C., who died in the fall of 1909, was the wife of Hiram Baker; Albert M.; Flora, who is the widow of J. L. Reifsnider; and Savanah, who is the wife of Andrew Rodgers, of Lewiston, Pa.

Albert M. Brown attended the public schools until old enough to give his father material assistance in business and he was identified with him in the timber industry in Center and Mifflin Counties, Pa., and in West Virginia, until 1888. In 1889 he started in business in lumbering on a small scale. In 1890 he started in Center County, operating Huntingdon, Center, and West Virginia, for 20 years. He is now living in Tyrone and operating in Huntingdon County, Pa., and Fulton County, Pa. He has been one of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's heaviest shippers for 20 years. On November 16, 1902, he organized and started the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Tyrone, serving at first as vice president and later accepting the presidency.

He is also a man of public spirit and has always been willing to look favorably on substantial business enterprises by which his city might be improved. In connection with other capitalists he erected a trolley line between Temple and Belton, Tex., where large oil concerns are interested. Mr. Brown owns a large farm in Mifflin County and an equally valuable one in Huntingdon County and for a number of years has been a large dealer in livestock. He has been very successful in his many undertakings and in the business world his name stands also for personal integrity.

In 1884 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Dora Mitchell, of Mifflin County, Pa., and they have had three sons born to them: James Blaine, who resides on his father's farm in Huntingdon County, married Mary Leech; William D., who was a graduate of Susquehanna University and then was employed in his father's bank until his lamented death in July, 1905, when but nineteen years of age and Benjamin Harrison, who was educated at Susquehanna University, and is now employed in the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He married Bessie Myers and they have one daughter, Marion.

Mr. Brown and family belong to the Lutheran Church at Gatesburg, Center County. In politics he is a Republican but not an unduly active one. He is, however, widely known in Masonry and is also an Odd Fellow, in the latter organization belonging to Milroy Lodge, No. 213, of Milroy, Pa. He belongs to Tyrone Lodge, No. 494, I. and A.M., Tyrone, Pa.; Mountain Royal Arch Chapter, No. 189, Altoona: Mountain Commandery, No. 10, Altoona; Harrisburg Consistory, Harrisburg; and Jaffa Temple, Altoona.^[1]

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Sources

1. ↑ Sell, Jesse C., "Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens", (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911), pp. 524-525.

• "Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1944", digital image, Ancestry.com (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc. 2009), [Original source: Pennsylvania Department of Health, "Death certificates, 1906–1963", (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg), Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11]

• "1880 United States Federal Census (Population Schedule)", Armagh Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA, Dwelling 351, Family 359, Albert Brown household, digital image, FamilySearch (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2010-2016), [Original source: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), NARA microfilm publication T9, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), p. 19A]